Joe Biden must ‘know something’ to think his family needs pardons, Kevin McCarthy charges
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden must “know something” that made him think that his family needed presidential pardons, which Biden essentially slipped under the door on his way out of the White House.
“You must know something that other people do not, and what?” McCarthy explained. “Why do you wait until 30 minutes before? Why did you tell the American public you would never pardon your son, and you do it now?”
McCarthy explained the pardons “suggest that members of Biden’s family have done ‘something wrong,'” the report confirmed.
“Terrible. Terrible. Think about what everybody else had gone through. Why pardon your family? It makes no sense to me. … All it does is put a cloud over that you did something wrong.”
In fact, Biden son Hunter was pardoned Dec. 2 after he had been convicted of gun felonies and after he had pleaded guilty to tax charges. He was facing up to years in prison.
Joe Biden had multiple times promised Americans he would let the juries and judicial system decide Hunter’s fate, then he pardoned him from all crimes for more than a decade.
Then just hours before his presidency ended, Joe Biden pardoned brothers James and Francis Biden, James’ wife Sara, his sister Valerie Owens and her husband John Owens.
“The difference here is whether you agree or disagree about what President Trump’s going to do, he told the American public ahead of time,” McCarthy said. “They put that into consideration whether they vote for him for president, so he’s just keeping a campaign promise.”
The Washington Examiner reported McCarthy cited a “double standard” for Biden’s pardons for family members and President Trump’s pardons for J6 protesters.
He said in an interview with NBC, “This is the difference. This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, ‘If I’m elected president, I will pardon these people.’ Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the very last day in the last 30 minutes, pardons his entire family.”
Biden must ‘know something that other people do not’ on family pardons: Kevin McCarthy https://t.co/zsPFdBRXYb
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 21, 2025
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